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By his estimation, Steve Miller has sold about 8 million albums in the '90s, a monumental feat considering he last released a new album in 1993. It's less surprising, however, when one takes a look at classic-rock radio playlists and finds songs such as 'Jet Airliner,' 'Fly Like an Eagle,' 'Take the Money and Run,' 'Rock'n Me,' 'Swingtown,' and The Joker,' all from Miller's chart-topping '70s heyday. The sheer volume of sales puts him on par with other '70s acts such as the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac. So why don't more people realize just how big Steve Miller was? Because he didn't want you to.

"Whenever I got to the very tippity-top of the charts and was ruling the world for a minute, I always ducked for a minute," Miller tells Spinner. "I didn't want that crown." Miller also didn't do a lot of press, instead happily touring and playing for his legions of fans. But now with a new album, 'Bingo!' -- his first in 17 years and one particularly near to his heart, as he takes the blues songs he grew up loving in Texas and turns them into Steve Miller Band tunes -- Miller is cranking up his visibility once more. In a wide-ranging interview, Miller speaks about the importance of music education, how being one of the biggest rock stars on the planet in the '70s wore him out, and why it took him so many years to warm up to the Rolling Stones.

How is the tour going so far?

So far, it's just going great. We put a whole new show together, incorporating the new stuff from the album along with the greatest hits. It's totally changed the way I look at my material, so I'm really enjoying it. The interesting thing for me is that two songs that I was pretty much done with were 'Livin' in the USA' and 'Space Cowboy.' We worked out the original version of 'Space Cowboy.' We always sort of tossed 'Space Cowboy' off as just a joke and so we've put it back together and it's going over quite well.

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As it does every year, Labor Day weekend marks the return of an age-old North American rite of passage: young boys having unclean thoughts about their teachers.

In the summer of 1984, Van Halen were enjoying their biggest commercial success to date. The riotous hard-rock band's sixth album, '5150,' had already scored one No. 1 hit ('Jump') and two other smash singles by the time another song from the album entered heavy rotation on the fledgling MTV.

As tour manager for some of rock 'n' roll's biggest icons, Sam Cutler has spent years on the road getting to know the human side of elusive rock legends. In an interview with Greta Van Susteren on FOX News, Cutler reminisced about his days with the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones, noting how different the two bands felt about business, the media, and fame.

The Rolling Stones, Cutler explained, were "super competitive ... want to be number one, want to have huge albums, want to be famous, want to have their pictures everywhere." Meanwhile, he added, "The Grateful dead were a bunch of hippies. They didn't have a clue about business."

When listeners finally get a hold of 'Wilderness Heart' on Sept. 14, they might notice things sound just a little different around the Black Mountain camp.

The usual players are still involved, of course -- vocalist Amber Webber continues to delight with her trembling wail and Jeremy Schmidt is once again coaxing vintage laser-like sounds from his keyboards. But things are very different behind the scenes. For the first time, the band brought in outside producers to work on their record -- namely, Dave Sardy (Oasis, Band of Horses) and Randall Dunn (Sunn O)))).

"When we're working we get deep into our own bubble world, and it becomes really hard to hear things outside the box," Webber tells Spinner. "That's exactly what a producer does, though, he's sort of like the ears that you need, so we wanted to see what it could be like.

"We wanted to see how a producer could turn our record into something that amazes us."

With a third LP due this month, No Age aren't worried about complacency so much as proficiency. Truth is, the noise-punk act's drummer Dean Spunt and guitarist Randy Randall love the thrill of creating with just the rudiments of technique.

"We've gotten a lot better at our instruments, which I don't necessarily think is a good thing all the time," Spunt tells Spinner. "There's something about being fresh and going through the process of learning -- that was really interesting for me."